THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ？BNüLEMIN MAHMUD KEMAL AND KEMALEDDIN HARPUTI- I

There is a friendship between ？bnülemin Mahmud Kemal ？nal, a famous and important person of Turkish culture and literature, and Kemaleddin Harputi that is heredited from their fathers. This friendship firstly started in absentia since ？bnülemin was in Istanbul and Kemaleddin Efendi based in Harput and continued with letters for a time. Kemaleddin Efendi who was the müfti of Ma’muretü’l-aziz between 1916-1926 was charged with being against the revolutions such as the abrogate of the caliphate and wearing hat by ？ark ？stiklal Courts in 1926 and was taken into custody on 27th of July 1926 and all of his documents in his house and office were confiscated. In this article fifteen letters of ？bnülemin written in his younger age and Kemaleddin Efendi’s draft responses found in this confiscated documents were transcribed into the Latin alphabet and we discussed some of the topics mentioned in those letters. The most remarkable one among these is a Turkish pamphlet written by Kemaleddin Efendi upon the request of ？bnülemin and is about the religious provision regarding taking photographs, drawing portraits and painting with a refrence to his father’s ideas. Other remarkable topics can be listed as: ？bnülemin’s “Na’t-？ Nebi” in verse, his discussion on prose vs. verse, and his writings under the pen-name Cemil Sat？ and Hüzni on the discussions of “Edebiyat-？ Cedide/ Dekadan”